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Using your Aztec Pizza Oven

Cooking In A Wood Fired Oven At Home – It’s About More Than Just Pizza!

An Aztec wood fired pizza oven may be the ultimate in outdoor cooking, especially if you want something a bit fancier than chops on the barbecue! Using a pizza oven is also a great way to cook awesome beef, pork, venison, fish, poultry, vegetables, bread: pretty much anything with that beautiful flavour that only a true wood fired oven can deliver!

Getting your fire going!

Ideally light and ready the oven 1.5 – 2 hours before you want to cook. After lighting the fire with smaller kindling pieces, add slightly larger pieces, this gets the fire roaring along. When the fire is well alight, put the door back on the oven and only open it to add the odd piece of firewood. When the oven has been going for a suitable time, push the fire to the back of the oven and leave the door off and you’re cooking.

When it comes to wood fired pizza recipes, everyone has their own style, and in no time at all, you’ll become competent at reading your oven’s temperature! Having a set of good oven gloves makes turning the dishes easy and safe…

Cooking

There are virtually no limits to your cooking possibilities; you’re limited only by your imagination. Get to know your oven. Experiment. This oven will make your cooking famous and for much more than just your wood fired pizza recipes.

Nothing cooked in a wood fired oven tastes like food from a conventional oven, it’s much better. Use the oven floor instead of tins to finish cooking your loaves of bread and pizzas. Yummy!!

Aztec Ovens have an efficient chimney system; there’s no need to remove the fire before you start cooking. You’ll be amazed how little firewood is needed to cook up a storm for 15 people.

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